Comparing Culture And Disobeying In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

Imagine that you are at a party and you notice someone that you are attracted to. You know that you are not allowed to date yet, but you want to anyway. What do you do? Everyone does something that they know that they shouldn 't do at one point or another in their life. Disobeying and obeying is a nature in the human mind. When you obey, it is part of your culture, you were raised to obey your parents and peers. When you disobey, you are going against the way you were raised and your culture. Most people would say that, culture is the ONLY thing that impacts the way you view the world. I disagree, I believe that culture has much to do with it, but it is not everything. For example, have you ever saw something as a child that you wanted to do

Most cultures have a religion, that religion has rules that people follow and obey. In the story, Everyday Use, one of the main characters, Dee, chooses to follow a different culture and religion than her mother and her sister are follow. Dee changes her name to Wangero, “ ‘ No, Mama,’ she says. ‘ Not Dee, ‘ Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo “ (Walker, 1973). She did this because she wanted to follow her religion. You may obey these rules, but more often than not you don 't obey all of them. You might obey a majority of them, but not all, some people don’t even realize that they are not obeying all the rules. You are choosing not to obey these rules because you don’t think they 're right or you don’t agree with them, your culture is not telling you to not obey them, your own personal opinions or intuition are telling you not the obey them. An example of making your own choices come from the story, Two Ways to LIve in America, the story is about two sisters, one follows her culture, the other wants to live her own life in America, “ I am an American citizen and she is not. I am moved that thousands of long-term residents are finally taking the oath of citizenship. She is not” (Mukherjee, 1996) People make their own choices all the time, they choose what to wear in the day, they choose what kind of toothpaste they use, they choose what to eat for lunch and, and